"Bare metal"

While Network Slicing is undoubtedly key in enabling operators to monetize 5G, the principles of DevOps as applied to network slicing and NF updates are key in helping achieve a competitive edge. 

I would like to round-out 2021 with a final post on a reference architecture that I have been driving towards all year. This post brings together several themes we have covered since 2019 – on the suitability of Kubernetes as a foundation for Telco 5G workloads. 

EKS Anywhere brings a consistent AWS management experience to your data center, building on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro, an open-source distribution for Kubernetes used by Amazon EKS.

Amazon EKS Anywhere, is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables customers and operators to run open-source Kubernetes clusters on-premises.

To break this out into numbers, a typical CSP will deploy hundreds of thousands of network services as virtual network functions (VNFs) or CNFs. VNFs will run in virtual machines that can optionally be run inside a Kubernetes distribution.

This blogpost discusses why its key to understand that its not one unified edge and why that definition varies based on the kind of business and workload in question.

Proton provides platform teams with the tools to manage and enforce consistency across environments while helping developers as well.